[WikiEN-l] JTDirl, was Requesting sysop access - CGS

[Fred Bauder]

and "lol" means what?

> From: Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>
> Reply-To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
> Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 06:37:31 -0700
> To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] JTDirl, was Requesting sysop access - CGS
> 
> Fred Bauder wrote:
> 
>>> From: "Tony Wilson" <list at redhill.net.au>
>>> 
>>> Tony
>>> 
>>> (Tannin)
>>> 
>>> (By the way, what happened to the nomination for JTDirl? That one seems
>>> to have fallen through the cracks. It's been ages.)
>>> 
>> 
>> I continue to object to sysop status for JTDirl. Take a look at the nasty
>> comment on my talk page:
>> 
>> http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Fred_Bauder especially on the last
>> line:
>> 
>> "lol FearÉIREANN"
>> 
>> I made no mistake in objecting to him.
>> 
> Without committing myself one way or the other about sysops, I find
> Fred's claim of a so-called "nasty comment" to be an egregious
> distortion of fact.  The entire end reads as follows:
> 
>> I thought I better let you know that this does crop up via the google
>> search. Feel free, BTW, to erase this message if you want. For all our
>> disagreements, I think it deeply wrong that the above accusation comes
>> up against your name on google. lol  FearÉIREANN
>> <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jtdirl>
> 
> This last paragraph and the much longer posting that precedes it seems
> very conciliatory.  The most relevant distortion seems to involve
> treating the "Fear" part of the nickname as some kind of imperative.
> Fred may not have noticed that JTDirl lives in Dublin, and his most
> abiding contributions have been in matters of Irish interest.  I would
> assign Fred the homework of looking up "fear" in a Gaelic dictionary.
> 
> May I suggest to JTDirl that an article on Irish Gaelic comparable to
> TAW's article on Polish would be most welcome at Wiktionary.
> 
> Eclecticology
> 
> 
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